Matthew 10:27

What I say to you in the dark, tell in the light, and what is whispered in your ear, ¹  proclaim from the housetops. ² 

Pr 1:20-23; Pr 8:1-5; Mt 13:1-17,34,35; Lu 8:10; Joh 16:1,13,25,29; Ac 5:20,28; Ac 17:17; 2Co 3:12

¹ tn Grk “what you hear in the ear,” an idiom.

² tn The expression “proclaim from the housetops” is an idiom for proclaiming something publicly (L&N 7.51). Roofs of many first century Jewish houses in Judea and Galilee were flat and had access either from outside or from within the house. Something shouted from atop a house would be heard by everyone in the street below.